Its not an externally influenced state of mind. All external treasures and status , International Goalkeeper, successful banker or whatever are null and void. Depression switches of all of your aesthetic taste buds rendering any chance of gleaning fulfilment from them almost non-existent. That can be THE most frustrating thing because you still hold the same popular beliefs about depression as everyone around you. You have x y and z so you should be happy.
When you say "I feel a bit depressed today" and if you use the term that meant the illness then you may as well say "I feel a bit cancerous today".
You wouldn't say "Cheer up squire your have got a great wife and career" to someone just diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Totally different illnesses yet both would bring about a mind set of hopelessness and a desire to just be free from it.
Depression is caused by thinking errors and neurological thought loops that have developed from your childhood in relation to how you see yourself and the world.
Also this guy already suffered the loss of his little girl and would have been trapped in what is known as a causal chain. Some sums in his head would have led to the conclusion that he may and probably will lose another child and that would have been enough to draw him to the only way from the pain and fear is to get in first and take his own life.
Also regressed anger is another component of depression.
Example.If you get a clump on the arm when you are say 3 years of age. Everyone laughs, mum and dad call you names and its basically a horrid experience, every time you get a knock on the arm as an adult you will regress back to your childhood and respond with the same resources as a three year old which is usually to go completely mad and end up seriously harming someone. Not the greatest of examples but you get my drift.
Some shrinks reckon that old stuff from years gone by resides forever unless dealt with and if not dealt with the only way to get away from it is to numb out (stay depressed). Doctors are only to happy to dish out the pills because of the commission they get from the pharmaceutical companies. Cause and effect. The pills deal with the effect and NOT the cause
How many times has someone pissed you off and you respond with justified anger and set the record straight. I bet afterwards you were not stewing.
Its only when we don't, we say to ourselves "should have done this and should have done that etc etc " and we boil with it.
When your a kid you haven't got that ability to evaluate and respond and as such you take **** on board that inst yours and if not dealt with it will play itself out in your adult hood, violence, depression or whatever.
Any way.. that's enough from me...I'm off give it some in the gym then get on it...enjoy the weekend.